Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. I wanted to write about the top 10 attributes of an entrepreneur.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. For example, let’s consider Mark. That blurb, and the following examples, were all generated from GPT in only a few seconds, at a cost of less than one penny. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 297

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter. That’s boring.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

Writing 19

Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. I notice, for example, that some CEO’s on Twitter never do anything but parrot their companies news. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Press Blogging 349

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. What exactly is visualization?

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

Buzzfeed 354

Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. Then should write down your “target goal.” I figured out something that worked for me.

Startup 526

Startup Course Writing Help 526

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. For example, in the screen shot my my recent visitor found my website by searching on the term “Jason Calacanis&# and is located in Tennessee in the US. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels. Basically, it rocks!

Blogging 287

Blogging Google Screening Mahalo 287

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” You’re thinking about one bullet at a time. When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.”

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Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I think a great example right now is turntable.fm. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Understand that for every article they write they need “an angle&# and if you can’t help shape that you’re not likely to get inches.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve always thought about writing a few posts on features in products that drive me nuts. Let me explain: Bcc’s function, as I’m sure you know, is to be able to write to people without other people emailed knowing that the blind copied people are on the distribution list. We all use email in our daily lives.

Email 276

Email Writing Venture Capital Course 276

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. I’m writing this check because I hope that I can lead your next round if you’re doing well.

Entrepreneur 310

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Writing Invest 310

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some examples of common objections across many companies: 1. These are made-up examples but they are typical of the kind of knowledge you gain over time for how to win an increased percentage of competitive deals. Prices are too high – Inexperienced sales reps will try to convince you they need to lower price to win deals.

Sales 289

Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. Maybe they don’t?

Sales 328

Sales Customer Custom Examples 328

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Here is an example from pw0ncakes. Here is a n example from Brerrabbit , whoever that is. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. One prominent YCombintor graduate CEO said, “Hacker News [can be] somewhat out of control. Ad hominem.

News 258

News Tips Blogging Writing 258

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Register a company.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. An example. What attributes am I looking for during the process? Next on the checklist.

Entrepreneur 338

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

Demand 240

Demand Media eHow Content 240

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example. This is critical as you need to be able to show realtime inventory ultimately to succeed – reading / writing to calendars isn’t good enough.

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. For example, on the Java platform, Jackson was used for frameworks that do not provide a serializer. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.”

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the framework''s data mapping code. For example, on the Java platform, Jackson was used for frameworks that do not provide a serializer. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Example here: [link]. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market. The client has to win.I

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company. That doesn’t work.”.

Santa Barbara 262

Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. For example, if you follow me but not @deblanda an I send her a message starting with an @ then you won’t see it at all. The basics: 1. When you use the @username (e.g.

Tips 291

Tips Social Media Social Network Venture Capital 291

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The most obvious example is “American Idol” where the singers who start out unknown and emerge as stars. Other examples are blooper videos, game shows, some cooking shows, reality TV, etc. To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing. Set design. Post-Production. And production matters.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Show the journalist examples of how we were much better on this issue than every other major Internet property. We showed the journalist exact examples across 5 or 6 of the most popular web properties on the Internet. The negative story got about 4-5 copycat articles reinforcing the privacy issue.

Press 336

Press Blogging Journal News 336

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Foursquare is a great example of this. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. But when I write a blog post I always allocate a certain amount of time to having debates in the comments section. This is what Fred Wilson talks about in this post about the FourSquare founders.

Entrepreneur 398

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 398

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” I recently gave a talk about the Future of Television.

GRP Partners 371

GRP Partners Content Technical Review Press 371

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 14, 2010

An example of the phenomenon from the non-tech world is surgeons. To illustrate let me first start with a quick example that some of you may have previously seen. Or when I see somebody who is extremely “salesy&# in a VC meeting I often write them off too quickly. &# Ugh. I chuckled.

Startup 343

Startup Examples Summary Venture Capital 343

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

As an entrepreneur I think it’s far more important to seek out investors who love you (no matter what) than it is, for example, to maximize valuation or find the perfect VC brand. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work.

Venture Capital 373

Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? Final example. And Flurry always gets mentioned.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. Examples: Bin38. I enjoy that. It’s over done.

Email 287

Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I wrote my version here and Scott wrote an excellent write-up of his views here. We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based].

Venture Capital 309

Venture Capital SaaS Writing Funding 309